In a sweeping initiative to curb pollutants blamed for global warming, the Obama administration unveiled a plan Monday aimed at cutting carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by nearly a third over the next 15 years.
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WASHINGTON — Five years a captive from the Afghanistan war, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is back in American hands, freed for five Guantanamo Bay terrorism detainees in a swap stirring sharp debate in Washington over whether the U.S. should have negotiated with the Taliban over prisoners.
A small earthquake struck off the Southern California coast, but no damages or injuries have been reported.
Michelle Lesco is petite, but the 115-pound competitive eater still managed to gobble down more than 28 hot dogs — and buns — to win an eating contest in suburban Chicago.
Philadelphia Inquirer co-owner Lewis Katz was killed along with six other people in a fiery plane crash in Massachusetts, just days after reaching a deal that many hoped would end months of infighting at the newspaper and restore it to its former glory.
Michelle Obama is striking back at House Republicans who are trying to weaken healthier school meal standards, saying any effort to roll back the guidelines is “unacceptable.”
A transit police detective who shot and killed a fellow officer in January accidentally mistook him for an armed assailant and won’t be charged, California prosecutors said in a report released on Friday.
Six Cleveland officers were indicted Friday in a November 2012 car chase that ended with two unarmed suspects dying in a hail of 137 shots, decried a racially motivated execution.
Facebook CEO and social media billionaire Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are donating $120 million to public schools in the San Francisco Bay Area.
About four years ago, the inventive minds at Google worked to develop cars driven by computers, a technology they said would be ready for the masses in the future, but no state had even considered whether driverless cars should be legal.
When the confetti flew, the two boys stood in the center of the stage and shook hands. They held up the trophy together. Both were champions, a Spelling Bee finish unseen in more than half a century.
Following the gang rape and slaying of two teenage cousins found hanging from a tree in northern India, a third suspect has been identified and arrested by police in a case that has triggered national outrage.
After being held for nearly five years by the Taliban after being captured in Afghanistan, U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl has been released into U.S. custody and the U.S. is turning over five Taliban detainees to the custody of Qatar as part of the deal.
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Securities and Exchange Commission are investigating possible insider trading involving high-profile Las Vegas developer and gambler Bill Walters, billionaire investor Carl Icahn, and golfer Phil Mickelson, a source familiar with the matter said.
Officers raiding a Georgia home in search of a drug suspect used a flash grenade not knowing children were inside, severely burning a toddler who was sleeping just inside the door, authorities and the boy’s family said.
